languette

noun languettes

1. A tongue-shaped implement. The languette, or plate, is fixed between the two rows of caps, one of its extremities upon the two right-hand caps, the other extending on the left beyond the base of the rectangle.
2. A tongue-like organ found on tunicates. This naturalist believes that the apparatus by the aid of which the act is performed is the series of dorsal languettes or the organs which represent them.
3. bony tongue-shaped structure on the mandible At the root of the languette, and a little below the middle of the interior space which intervenes between the mandibles, is placed the pharynx.
4. fleshy tongue-shaped structure Lastly, the stem of each auditory hair presents a sort of appendage (the languette), to which the nerve of the hair is attached.
5. A tongue-shaped design used to decorate Ancient Greek pottery. The foregoing analysis suggests that smaller dimensions and decoration with languettes are characteristic of hydrias in our assemblage, though neither criterion need be applicable in other regions or even in other PG periods at Lefkandi. (41)
6. A type of decorative hood used on a woman's bodice in the seventeenth century.
7. The tongue of a reed on a harmonium. The instrument had to be soaked in water for a short time so the languette became soft again.
8. An elongated samara that occurs alone. In the Maple (Fig. 205) each fruit has two samarae united at base. In the Ash there is but one to each flower; its long wing gives it the name languette (little tongue, Fr.)
9. A valve flap associated with the byssus of a mollusk. The mantle entirely envelops the animal, and forms three apertures, one of which serves for the passage of the byssus and the languette;